Eye Has not Seen

Eye Has not Seen

When reading passages like 1 Corinthians 2:9 "... Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him", it's not unusual to latch onto just that statement and skip right over the primary thought of the larger passage.

It feels like humility to tell ourselves that we cannot know what God is doing, what His plans are, what awaits us when we pass from temporal life.

The truth is found in the very next verse and fleshed out in the remainder of the chapter.

In verse 10, Paul makes it perfectly clear that God has revealed all this by His Spirit.

He goes on to tell us that the Spirit of God, was given to us so that we can know the things that God has freely given us. (v12)

The climax of his thought is that though it seems to the fleshly mind that no one can know what God thinks, the fact of the matter is that we have the mind of Christ! (v16)

Roll this around in your mind for a while. Let it steep into your thinking.

Understanding God's will, His way of thinking, His many gifts to you, these things are not far off, complex, imponderable ideas that you have to chase after and search for.

Knowing these things is wired into your new self. It became an innate part of who you are the moment you believed and were placed into Christ.

Resist the temptation to build your understanding of God, yourself, and your relationship to Him on a single verse. Always consider the context, the complete thought being presented, the audience to whom it is primarily directed and the covenant under which it was given.

Your new heart already wants what God wants. Father is seeing to it. (see Philippians 2:13) Rest in that knowledge.